Teacher Appreciation Day: Toledo’s Escuela SMART Academy [Video]

TOLEDO, Ohio — Escuela SMART Academy is the only bilingual school in the Toledo Public Schools system.

TPS is recognizing educators in the district for Teacher Appreciation Day on Wednesday and is highlighting teachers who help students learn both English and Spanish.

Kelvin Santiago, who teaches third through sixth-grade Spanish, has been an educator at Escuela for six years.

He says it warms his heart to share his talents with his students. 

“We teach basic lesson Spanish classes but we also teach basic literature. It means that we read in Spanish,” he said. “We teach short novels, short stories and we also teach the basics of Spanish.It means we teach nouns, we teach how to conjugate verbs, how to use adjectives in Spanish.”

Santiago says Escuela has an average of 20-25 students in each class.

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